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Paperback Edition available on Amazon, Lulu, and Barnes & Noble.
We present you: A new agile book with many exercises for facilitating retrospectives, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they bring, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives.
This is a book for agile coaches, scrum masters, project managers, product managers and facilitators who already have some experience with retrospectives.
With this book we are offering a half year of our work to the community to help teams all over the world to get better in doing retrospectives.
Want to stay informed about retrospectives and future versions of our book?
Join us at eepurl.com/Mem7H or join Luis Goncalves Monthly Webinar right here.
This book is being translated into many languages, they are all available on Leanpub.
Ben Linders & Luis Gonçalves
About the authors
We are both active bloggers at www.benlinders.com and lmsgoncalves.com. On our blogs we share our experiences on several agile and lean topics including retrospectives.
During the years we have conducted many different kinds of retrospectives. We think that practicing different exercises helps to develop your own personal toolbox with retrospective exercises and get more value out of them
Notes:
- This book is also available on InfoQ: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives.
- Paperback Edition is published. Get your copy at Lulu, Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
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Gojko Adzic
Strategic software delivery consultant
"People tasked with facilitating team retrospectives, such as agile coaches or Scrum masters, will benefit the most from the book as it contains several great ideas for organising and troubleshooting retrospectives. "
Lisa Crispin
Agile testing coach and practitioner
"Try the exercises in this book whether your team is new to retrospectives, new to agile in general, or quite experienced with agile and retros but in need of a refreshing change."
Franco Martinig
Editor of Software Development Books and Methods & Tools
"This is a book that I naturally recommend to every people that has to run retrospectives, but also to every project manager that wants to facilitate meetings to solve issues in software development projects."
Mary Beijleveld
Agile Coach and trainer at VX Company
"Handig, alles bij elkaar in een boekje. Heb ‘m meteen gedownload. Ben, bedankt!"
Jason Little
Author of Lean Change Management
"I just finished this book, it's a must-have reference guide for any facilitator, not just Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches. What sets this book apart is that each section has a "when to use this technique" and detailed instructions for how to do it. "
Adrian Fittolani
Program Director (Market) at Envato, blogs at Scrumage.com
"(...) hit this little beauty – Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives by Luis Gonçalves and Ben Linders. It’s a really quick read full of ideas to mix it up in your retrospectives."
Mirella de Vries
Product Owner / Informatieanalist at IT&Care BV
"I was looking for a practical guide with a short introduction on restrospectives and lots of examples which I could use during our retrospectives. I found it all in this book!"
Steve Berczuk
Principal Engineer and ScrumMaster at Fitbit and Editor at Techwell
"Skim the book to get a sense of what’s there, and then use it as a reference as you plan your next retrospective. (...) This book will help you keep your retrospectives fresh."
Pierre Neis
Senior Lean Agile Coach
"This is an interesting book to understand and perform Retrospectives for Agile Teams. Highly recommended for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches."
Fabian Schiller
Agile & Scrum Coach
"This book is great! Every ScrumMaster and Agile Coach should have it on his bookshelf. You can get many practicable ideas for conducting retrospectives from this book. And it is really easily accessible."
Jesse Houwing
Lead Consultant (ALM, Agile)
"Great hands-on book with multiple techniques, tools, aims and all in a very hands-on manner."
Henny Portman
PMO consultant at NN Group
"a must read for scrum masters, agile coaches and project managers to assure that their retrospectives get the attention they need to get the most out of them as well as expanding their toolbox."
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- What Is an Agile Retrospective?
- Why Do We Do Retrospectives?
- Business Value of Agile Retrospectives
- Pre-Requirements for Retrospectives
- Designing a Retrospective
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Retrospective Exercises
- Asking Questions
- Starfish
- Sailboat
- One-Word Retrospective
- Car Brand
- Happiness Index
- Five Times Why
- Constellation
- Team Assessment Survey
- Strengths-Based Retrospective
- High Performance Tree
- Value Stream Mapping
- Retrospective of Retrospectives
- Benefits of Retrospectives
- Adopting Agile Retrospectives
- A Retrospectives Book in Your Language
- Develop Your Agile Retrospective Facilitation Skills
- Valuable Agile Retrospectives
- Bibliography
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About the Authors
Luis Gonçalves
My name is Luis Gonçalves and I am an Agile Coach, Co-Author, Speaker and a Blogger.
I have been working in the software industry since 2003, being an Agile practitioner since 2007. I have a lot of experience in integrating sequential projects phases like localization into an Agile Framework and pioneering Agile adoption at different companies and different contexts. I have a technical background yet my passion lies at the Management side where I am a Management 3.0 passionate.
I am a co-founder of a MeetUp group in Munich, Germany called High Performing Teams. Me and my colleagues created this group with the vision of “Define the future of Management and Leadership” . We are aiming to collaboratively generate several ideas/theories and try them out in our professional life.
I like to write and share ideas with the world and this made me a passionate blogger. I get inspiration from my professional life and from all books that I read every week. You can follow my blog here.
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Ben Linders
I'm an Independent Consultant in Agile, Lean, Quality and Continuous Improvement, based in The Netherlands. Co-author of the book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives.
As an advisor, coach and trainer, I help organizations by deploying effective software development and management practices. I focus on continuous improvement, collaboration and communication, and professional development, to deliver business value to customers.
I'm an active member of several networks on Agile, Lean and Quality, and a frequent speaker and writer. I share my experience in a bilingual blog (Dutch and English) and as an editor for Agile at InfoQ. Follow me on twitter: @BenLinders.
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